Ettie Fahima, 45, of Netzer Hazani in Gush Katif, mother of four, was murdered last night near Kfar Darom as she was driving home. A terrorist crawled undetected from a house near the Kisufim junction and then opened fire on a bulletproof bus carrying children and on several cars. Miraculously, Ettie was the only fatality; three others were wounded.
Eight years ago, Ettie\'s husband was seriously wounded by Arabs while working in his hothouse, and he has never returned to functioning fully. Her funeral procession left from Gush Katif for Arad, via Be\'er Sheva and the Prime Minister\'s home in the Shikmim Farm. Arutz-7\'s Moshe Priel reported that the procession passed Kibbutz Alumim, Kibbutz Sa\'ad, Kfar Maimon, and Azata, and at each intersection hundreds of people stood with Israeli flags and signs saying, \"Enough murder! Enough pain!\" Kfar Maimon resident Rabbi Yitzchak Levy, head of the National Religious Party, read aloud the \"Eglah Arufah\" Torah portion describing the city sages \"washing their hands\" a murder and declaring, \"Our hands have not shed this blood... Lay not innocent blood amidst [to the charge of] Your people Israel\" (Deut. 21).
Anita Tucker of Netzer Hazani told Arutz-7 about her friend Ettie:
\"She was a Zionist without quotation marks and without limits. She withstood some of the most difficult tests a person could undergo. She helped her family get on its feet and educated her children after her husband was attacked by Arabs with an axe to his head... She stood strong when her house seemed to become the target of many mortar shells - many fell in her yard and around her house... Today, because the country is not fulfilling a sovereign state\'s elementary responsibility to protect its citizens, we are burying her. I last spoke to her several days ago at a demonstration against the overpass that the government wants to build here - she realized how dangerous it was for the residents here and participated in all the protests - and it was because of that very bridge, which is lying there in the intersection waiting to be put in place, that the terrorists were able to crawl unseen behind the ramp leading up to it and perpetrate the murder.\"
Seventeen wounded victims from yesterday\'s attacks remain hospitalized today. Three people hurt in last night\'s Gush Katif attack are in Soroka Hospital in Be\'er Sheva, including a baby who was lightly hurt and a man in moderate condition. In Afula\'s HaEmek Hospital, two people are fighting for their lives, and two others are also in serious condition.
Eight years ago, Ettie\'s husband was seriously wounded by Arabs while working in his hothouse, and he has never returned to functioning fully. Her funeral procession left from Gush Katif for Arad, via Be\'er Sheva and the Prime Minister\'s home in the Shikmim Farm. Arutz-7\'s Moshe Priel reported that the procession passed Kibbutz Alumim, Kibbutz Sa\'ad, Kfar Maimon, and Azata, and at each intersection hundreds of people stood with Israeli flags and signs saying, \"Enough murder! Enough pain!\" Kfar Maimon resident Rabbi Yitzchak Levy, head of the National Religious Party, read aloud the \"Eglah Arufah\" Torah portion describing the city sages \"washing their hands\" a murder and declaring, \"Our hands have not shed this blood... Lay not innocent blood amidst [to the charge of] Your people Israel\" (Deut. 21).
Anita Tucker of Netzer Hazani told Arutz-7 about her friend Ettie:
\"She was a Zionist without quotation marks and without limits. She withstood some of the most difficult tests a person could undergo. She helped her family get on its feet and educated her children after her husband was attacked by Arabs with an axe to his head... She stood strong when her house seemed to become the target of many mortar shells - many fell in her yard and around her house... Today, because the country is not fulfilling a sovereign state\'s elementary responsibility to protect its citizens, we are burying her. I last spoke to her several days ago at a demonstration against the overpass that the government wants to build here - she realized how dangerous it was for the residents here and participated in all the protests - and it was because of that very bridge, which is lying there in the intersection waiting to be put in place, that the terrorists were able to crawl unseen behind the ramp leading up to it and perpetrate the murder.\"
Seventeen wounded victims from yesterday\'s attacks remain hospitalized today. Three people hurt in last night\'s Gush Katif attack are in Soroka Hospital in Be\'er Sheva, including a baby who was lightly hurt and a man in moderate condition. In Afula\'s HaEmek Hospital, two people are fighting for their lives, and two others are also in serious condition.